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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"Lewandowski to Democrats: I'm not answering your 'f---ing' questions" - CNN
https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/05/politics/corey-lewandowski-russia-investigation/index.html(CNN)Corey Lewandowski had a blunt message for Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee: He wasn't going to answer their "fucking" questions.
Lewandowski, President Donald Trump's former campaign manager, was the final witness in the yearlong House investigation that descended into vitriol and back-biting -- ultimately resulting in two separate partisan reports that will leave the American public no closer to learning how the Russians interfered in the 2016 elections.
But Lewandowski, who agreed to come back to the committee a second time in March after initially refusing to answer questions about topics occurring once he left the campaign in June 2016, was in no mood to give Democrats anything they wanted, saying he would only answer "relevant" questions.
And, according to four sources with direct knowledge of the situation, the Trump confidante repeatedly swore at Democratic lawmakers to make the point he wasn't going to talk further.
I'm not answering your "fucking" question, Lewandowski shouted at one point.
snip - more to read about this real class act.
malaise
(269,245 posts)Seriously - these low-lives have to be banished into oblivion.
dameatball
(7,400 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(31,131 posts)chuckstevens
(1,201 posts)I don't want to hear the Democrats aren't in control!
Put the pressure on the Republicans for allowing such contemptible behavior! Can you imagine if a member of a Democrat campaign did this? All hell would be breaking lose on the right
dem4decades
(11,315 posts)The Republicans fear Trump's base much more than a Democratic opponent. Thanks gerrymandering.
There's only one thing to do about it, take control of the House and Senate.
chuckstevens
(1,201 posts)Why can't the Left scream and holler about legitimate outrageous behavior? I just get so tried of playing defense.
magicarpet
(14,200 posts)* The Dems win the majority...
* The Dems chair the committee now.....
* The Dems issue a subpoena for Lewandowski to return to testify.
* Lewandowski refuses to testify or answer a question. He is found in Contempt of Congress. The Sargent of Arms is summoned to place Lewandowski under arrest and locked in the jail at the basement of the building and held in contempt until he answers the questions like a fucking gentleman.
We need to win control of Congress and the committee chair seat before we control the chamber - we can do nothing now because the Rethugs refuse to check and balance the executive branch.
If we win control we can redo these investigatory hearings and find out what tRump, what tRdump's goons, and what Russia did to meddle in our government and our national election.
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Yes you are absolutely correct the Demos should take these atrocities that make a mockery of our Democracy and play them in the media to the hilt. Then come 2018 midterms voters would more fully realize how bull headed and recalcitrant Rethugs have really been time and time again.
chuckstevens
(1,201 posts)magicarpet
(14,200 posts)Hang in there...
Come November 2018 - Rethugs are going to finally realize - they pushed America too close to the edge. The push back is going to be monumental and astounding.
RandySF
(59,549 posts)Yes, I am going to hang onto that for a very long time.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)did not take notice. Flap mouth has not had his turn in the Team Mueller Barrel.
Mike Nelson
(9,977 posts)...I would have sent Corey directly to jail - release would be when he's ready to answer the questions.
Greybnk48
(10,178 posts)when we initiate an all new investigation and call him back to testify in front of a Democratic run committee.
SonofDonald
(2,050 posts)The moment we take control, one for every last one of these bastards that denied questioners.
Write them up ahead of time and have them ready to go, serve everybody the moment they can and if they pull this crap again it's down to the basement they go.
Where "Afternoon Delight" by the starland vocal band is played continuously at 11 on the volume knob.
But make sure they get put on a no fly list first, I really do think some may bolt when they see the writing on the wall.
Or my favorite idea:
Lock them all in one room, starve them for a week ( or two! ), give them each a dull butter knife and a fork.
And turn out the lights.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)How can anyone who claims to follow the teachings of Christ, as republicans so vigorously & publicly advertise about themselves, behave in a manner so foul? Kinda anti-christ behavior if you ask The Saints. Maybe totally. Just as the cascade of blatant republican lies to the American people are stanky enough to knock a buzzard off a shitwagon, actual republican behavior is stanky enough to knock the saints off their clouds.
magicarpet
(14,200 posts)....vacancy to replace Scalia. Refused Garland a hearing for over a calendar year. Then allowed tRdump a vote for Gorsuch. Now the Religious Right brags how the appointment of Gorsuch by tRdump was a righteous event blessed by heaven.
That was an eye opener - The Rethugs do not give a sweet fuck about America or the institutions that keep our Democracy glued together and functioning smoothly.
They could give a hoot less.
Maven
(10,533 posts)Since this is the guy that Jeff Zucker paid as a commentator to catapult the Trump propaganda
Clarity2
(1,009 posts)Mueller. Go ahead. Try it.
These people are so brazen that its almost as if they know Trump will hold power for life. Thats what concerns me.